By the time campaigning ends next week, billions of dollars will have
been spent to snag it: the job of US President. All those bucks for
a position that lasts only four years with a salary of less than half a
million dollars a year. But weighing the post by its salary is like
saying that Olympic athletes sweat for years just to pocket a few hundred
dollars' worth of gold.

The post of President of the United States carries immense power to make
decisions that affect, for better or worse, people around the world. The
effects of the actions of a president last for years. Even eponyms (words
coined after someone's name) enter the language that reflect their legacy,
such as Reaganomics, teddy bear (after Theodore Roosevelt), etc.

This week we feature words that may appear to have been coined after this
year's candidates, but they have been in the language even before these
candidates were born.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)